Sensible Chinese

I’ve found this excellent infographic about learning Chinese in China. I wanted to share it with everyone who has been thinking about how to learn Chinese in China. It’s a long infographic so be sure to bookmark this page or download the image...

I want to introduce and discuss the Learn Mandarin Now Podcast and provide a short review of how and why this podcast series can help your Chinese progress. At the same time I want to talk generally about the use of audio podcasts. The Basics Learn Mandarin...

I want to speak to you about the best way to learn how to speak Chinese. Here’s the big secret, the thing that holds people back from learning a foreign language: To learn to speak Chinese you need to speak Chinese. Huh? That sounds obvious right?...

The video above and article below both walk you through how to write in Chinese the Sensible Chinese way. Watch or read (or both!) depending on your preference. How to Write in Chinese Hi, 你好 My name is Kyle and I run sensiblechinese.com, a blog...

In this long article I’m going to go through a step-by-step method for how to most efficiently learning how to write in Chinese. It’s a long article so I recommend you bookmark (Ctrl+D or Command+D on a Mac) and come back to it as a reference...

Getting started in Chinese is hard. How to learn Chinese is a question a lot of people ask me. Here are a few things I wish I had known about when I started to learn Chinese! This is a BIG article! Or a small book – take your pick! Therefore it’s...

Hopefully by now you have found a speaking partner and started to speak a little Chinese. The “problem” is that now people will speak back to you!And you might not understand what they are saying – shock horror. Today I want to talk...

Learning how to use a Chinese dictionary initially seems difficult. In a language that uses an alphabet (like English, French or German) we can simply look up words in alphabetical order. We just need to now the order of the alphabet which, thankfully,...

A question that comes up a lot is how to type in Chinese. I’m a big fan of Chinese typing as it allows you to start communicating in written Chinese really fast. Getting to a similar level of communicative ability using handwriting can take many...

Today we’re going to take three tiny but important steps to rapidly improving your spoken Chinese. Here’s a video to go along with the ideas in the article: All three of these steps are totally free and will form the foundation of a great...